Former Step Daughter of National Security Minister Slapped With Additional Firearm Possession Charge.

Four of the five peo­ple ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a $15 million drug bust in West­moor­ings on Tues­day afternoon have been charged for pos­ses­sion of il­le­gal drugs with the in­tent to traffic.

Krys­tiana Sankar, the for­mer step-daugh­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, will face ad­di­tion­al charges of pos­ses­sion of a loaded .38 re­volver, which was re­cov­ered from a safe in her bed­room at the Re­gents Gar­dens apart­ment.

The fifth sus­pect, who was ar­rest­ed away from the scene, dri­ving a black BMW, was not charged.

The drug bust in­volved sev­er­al spe­cialised units in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice with field op­er­a­tions from the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team.

The sus­pects are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate on Fri­day.

There is ex­pect­ed to be a high­er than usu­al se­cu­ri­ty pres­ence out­side the court for their ap­pear­ance.